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Topic: What are your favorite comic book story arcs? (Read 4255 times)

As I said in another thread, mine are The Death and Return of Superman, Knightfall (Batman), and Maximum Carnage.

What are you yours, and why?

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may be because the Adventures of Tintin is the first comic book I ever read when I was a child courtesy of my librarian neighbor & my book collector dad. in that series Tintin in Tibet is by far deeper on many levels and to my childhood spiritual inclinations quite fascinating and instructive.

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Thanks to those Pocket Book reprints from the '70s and '80s I got exposed to a lot of the early stuff. The first few times the Fantastic Four met up with Doctor Doom was great, culminating in Doom launching the Baxter Building into outer space; also Galactus. Spiderman's run ins with Doc Ock were very arcy. The Green Goblin arc, ending in the Death of Gwen Stacey is a classic. The Secret Wars are some of the first comics I remember reading, and taught me far more than the cartoon and live action series just why one should never mess with Spiderman. A Lonely Place of Dying was one of my favorite Batman arcs, along with Tim Drake's early years as Robin- barring Dick Grayson, who was Nightwing through most of my life, Drake is the best Robin. Batman: Year One, The Dark Knight Returns, Watchmen. X-Men: Days of Future Past. The first few arcs in Superman/Batman comics were great, did an excellent job of breaking down the last of the post-Crisis "Batman and Superman work with each other, but don't like each other" attitude, and the one offs were hilarious.

And of course, all of Atomic Robo.

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Daredevil's Born Again and the Elektra Saga up to her death, Batman's Dark Knight, Killing Joke and Year One. I like the Star Brand from Marvel's New Universe (I hear they are returning in the standard universe continuity...) I used to like Watchmen and Sandman, but although I still see the stories as compelling, I think they did more harm than good to my worldviews, not defining but supporting general moral relativism.

As for why, because they all are musings on what being a hero really entails, on what it means being faithful to virtue and truth in a world that fundamentally despises and hates everything that is true and honest.

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Many Energies, 3 Persons, 2 Natures, 1 God, 1 Church, 1 Baptism, and 1 Cup. The Son begotten only from the Father, the Spirit proceeding only from the Father, Each glorifying the Other. The Son sends the Spirit, the Spirit Reveals the Son, the Father is seen in the Son. The Spirit spoke through the Prophets and Fathers and does so even today.

I don't know if this counts, but I just recently started watching all the TV episodes of The Incredible Hulk (starring Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno) again. It's amazing how very different the episodes appear now that I'm an adult watching them for the first time since I was a kid. It's as if I understand Dr. Banner's plight a lot better. What a truly sad, lonely existence wandering from town to town always in fear of the beast that lies within.

I don't know if this counts, but I just recently started watching all the TV episodes of The Incredible Hulk (starring Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno) again. It's amazing how very different the episodes appear now that I'm an adult watching them for the first time since I was a kid. It's as if I understand Dr. Banner's plight a lot better. What a truly sad, lonely existence wandering from town to town always in fear of the beast that lies within.

On that note, Greg Pak did an interesting twist on the theme in his recent Hulk run, one that the current writers have decided to go with. Long-story short, all this time Banner thought he was protecting the world from the Hulk, the Hulk was actually protecting the world from him.

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Also, Zatanna's search for Zatara that spanned several stories in Hawkman, Detective, Atom, Green Lantern, and Justice League of America back in the mid-1960's. It introduced Zatanna and reintroduced Zatara during the peak of the Silver Age. Brilliant art by Carmine Infantino, Murphy Anderson, Gil Kane, Mike Sekowsky, Sheldon Moldoff, Joe Giella, and Sid Greene, and excellent stories by Gardner Fox. The arc was collected in a TPB several years ago called "Zatanna's Search".

*sigh* Why is it a thread demonizing RCs or arguing against Protestant propaganda can reach 500 replies overnight, but something as vitally important as this is only at 6?

Wait 'til we get into DC vs. Marvel or Superman vs. Batman. Anathemas will be in order.

Batman. Duh. He knows he can do it and the JLA, including Superman, knows he can do it. He has the means.

bahhhhh, not you too. It's definitely Superman.

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"For, by its immensity, the divine substance surpasses every form that our intellect reaches. Thus we are unable to apprehend it by knowing what it is. Yet we are able to have some knowledge of it by knowing what it is not." - St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa contra gentiles, I, 14.

Don't act like Bats hasn't thought of that. Even if he did, the lead suit could be disposed of in no short order.

Of course, Supes could always roast batman from a mile away with his heat vision before the Kryptonite ever became an issue. Just saying.

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"For, by its immensity, the divine substance surpasses every form that our intellect reaches. Thus we are unable to apprehend it by knowing what it is. Yet we are able to have some knowledge of it by knowing what it is not." - St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa contra gentiles, I, 14.

Because I was the man that I was at the age of five, I realized that comics were for the more feeble minded of children and this one no less than mere war propaganda.

And upon putting the gum into my mouth, I immediately knew this product was also a way of supporting the military industrial complex along monetized lines as well as those ideological by repurposing spent M-16 shell casings as consumer goods.

Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things. ~Philippians 4:8; St Paul

Don't act like Bats hasn't thought of that. Even if he did, the lead suit could be disposed of in no short order.

Of course, Supes could always roast batman from a mile away with his heat vision before the Kryptonite ever became an issue. Just saying.

Again, don't think Batman doesn't have a contingent plan. The only person who will cause Batman's downfall is Batman.

On that note, and to resurrect this thread after finals-

JLA: Tower of Babel.

Very appropriate in light of the debate on Batman.

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"For, by its immensity, the divine substance surpasses every form that our intellect reaches. Thus we are unable to apprehend it by knowing what it is. Yet we are able to have some knowledge of it by knowing what it is not." - St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa contra gentiles, I, 14.

"For, by its immensity, the divine substance surpasses every form that our intellect reaches. Thus we are unable to apprehend it by knowing what it is. Yet we are able to have some knowledge of it by knowing what it is not." - St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa contra gentiles, I, 14.

It promises to be interesting. Everything is better that running around Hueco Mundo and fighting random Arrancars (or finding him new friends, gaining them new powers, then killing all these new friends and taking back the powers after a few chapters).

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In general, before 1995, I tended to like the Marvel crossover books better than the DC ones. With Marvel you might get a new costume or new character or some such out of the deal, but with DC you had to relearn an entire continuity and argue with other comics fans over what Superman's powers are THIS time around.

After 1995 we started getting Heroes Reborn, Civil Wars, and Spidey's One More Day. Bad Marvel.

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"Funny," said Lancelot, "how the people who can't pray say that prayers are not answered, however much the people who can pray say they are." TH White

It promises to be interesting. Everything is better that running around Hueco Mundo and fighting random Arrancars (or finding him new friends, gaining them new powers, then killing all these new friends and taking back the powers after a few chapters).

It promises to be interesting. Everything is better that running around Hueco Mundo and fighting random Arrancars (or finding him new friends, gaining them new powers, then killing all these new friends and taking back the powers after a few chapters).

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who can watch the watchmen?"No one is paying attention to your post reports"Why do posters that claim to have me blocked keep sending me pms and responding to my posts? That makes no sense.